Real Nightmares (Book 9)

Brad Steiger

Description

Abductions, invasions, and encounters. Entities, aliens, and ancients. Who is among us? What happened in the past and what should we expect for the future?

Explore the strange world of the unknown with paranormal researcher extraordinaire Brad Steiger, an author of thousands of books and articles on mysterious secrets and unexplained phenomena.

From creepy strangers and shape-shifting species to unexpected warnings and mysterious vanishing, you’ll be startled to learn what inhabits the world of Real Nightmares: Alien Strangers and Foreign Worlds.

Sujets

• Ancient mysteries
• Unexplained Phenomena
• Extraterrestrials
• Body (disambiguation)
• Bob Lazar
• Area 51
• Brad Steiger
• Zone 51
• UFO

Informations

• Publié par: Visible Ink Press
• Date de parution: 01 septembre 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781578594412
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

Extrait

C ONTENTS
The Great Shaver Mystery and Its Warning to Future Man
A Mass Invasion of Earth by Grays Began in 1954
Abducted from His Home by Robotic Beings
Five Strange Customers in a Tobacco Shop
The Dover Demon: Ancient Evil or Sinister Alien?
Hollow Earth-A Haven for Ancient Beings
Donna and Sam Fear that Their Abduction Made Them Unwilling Participants in Creating a Hybrid Race
The Coming of the New Age of UFO Prophets
F ROM THE A UTHOR , B RAD S TEIGER
A real nightmare occurs when you experience a frightening encounter with something strange and unknown, and you know without question that you are not asleep, that you are not dreaming. You know with every ounce of your being that the chilling encounter is real.
I first experienced real nightmares when I was a child. Today, my sister and I attribute our insomnia to the ghostly visitors that walked through our bedrooms nearly every night and kept us awake. Our farmhouse was built on the site of the old stagecoach stop, and it seemed that some other-worldly passengers were still trying to catch the last stage out of this dimension. It didn t help when our parents tore the old house down and built a new home on the same site. Our spirit companions still appeared as shadows moving about the house and amused themselves by knocking on the walls, stomping about with heavy feet, and opening and closing doors. Growing up with real nightmares on a regular basis prepared me for the nights in my adulthood when I would investigate haunted houses with a team of paranormal researchers and encounter a wide variety of other-worldly beings.
For the past five decades, I have been devoted to exploring and examining unusual, unexplainable, and otherwise strange occurrences. In addition to in-field research, I have collected chilling tales of the strange and unknown for many years. My first published works appeared in national publications when I was a twenty-year-old college senior. I wrote a number of stories and articles on the weird, the paranormal, and the mysterious for a wide variety of mystery and men s magazines. While I was a high school and college English teacher, I wrote numerous short stories for such magazines as Fantastic, Alfred Hitchcock s Mystery Magazine, The Saint, Exploring the Unknown , and Fate . My first book was Monsters, Maidens, and Mayhem: A Pictorial History of the Hollywood Monster Movie , followed by the sequel, Master Movie Monsters , later that same year. Next was a collection of my articles on the paranormal published as Ghosts, Ghouls, and Other Peculiar People . I finally left teaching and became a full-time paranormal researcher and writer.
I have been fortunate that my books and articles have struck a responsive chord with both fans and critics. My editing of Project Bluebook was hailed by Omni magazine as one of the best UFO books of the century. I was inducted into the Hypnosis Hall of Fame for my work with UFO contactees, abductees, and past life regression, and I received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the National UFO and Unexplained Phenomena Conference.
My good fortune brightened even more when I began a friendship and a working relationship with Sherry Hansen, who had worked closely with Dr. J. Allen Hynek, the official scientific advisor for the U.S. Air Force s twenty-year study of UFOs. In the latter years of his life, and until his death, Sherry served as his publicist at his nonprofit UFO research organization in Phoenix.
We married in 1987, and for the next fifteen years we lectured and conducted seminars on our combined research into the paranormal, UFOs, and mysterious phenomena throughout the United States and overseas. A number of reviewers have referred to us as the original Mulder and Scully and suggested that we had well established our own X-Files long before the television series began. We were featured in twenty-two episodes of the television series Could It Be a Miracle? , and together some of our television appearances and specials include: The Joan Rivers Show, Entertainment Tonight, Inside Edition, Hard Copy, Hollywood Insider , and specials on HBO, USA Network, The Learning Channel, The History Channel, and Arts and Entertainment (A E), among others.
I have written more than two thousand articles with paranormal themes. I am the author or coauthor of more than 170 books, including Real Vampires, Night Stalkers, and Creatures from the Darkside; Real Ghosts, Restless Spirits, and Haunted Places; The Werewolf Book ; and with my wife, Sherry, the co-author of forty-three books, including Real Miracles, Divine Intervention , and Feats of Incredible Survival; Conspiracies and Secret Societies , and Real Aliens, Space Beings, and Creatures from Other Worlds .
Thanks to my loyal fans-many of whom state that they began reading my books when they were only ten or eleven years old and have followed my work ever since-I have been able to devote my career to exploring and examining unusual, unexplainable, and otherwise strange occurrences. The reviews have also been consistently appreciative-often with a recurrent theme of leaving the lights on and not being able to sleep after reading one of my books.
While most individuals would probably be offended if someone accused them of giving them nightmares, I take it as a compliment.
Commenting on my chilling Real Vampires, Night Stalkers, and Creatures from the Darkside , a reviewer wondered if Stephanie Meyer would ever have written the Twilight books if she had read my book first.
Another reviewer stated that Real Vampires was far darker, more ominous than anything that Hollywood could ever throw at us.
Yet another warned that Real Vampires will keep you awake at night and you will want to sleep with the lights on, which I must warn you may be the only way that you will rest at all.
Real Zombies, the Living Dead, and Creatures from the Darkside prompted similar warnings from book reviewers:
Like a Zombie, this book will grab you by the jugular vein and won t let go.
Real Zombies is fascinating, chilling, blood cur dling.
Those who reviewed Real Ghosts, Restless Spirits, and Haunted Places also felt it was their duty to advise readers of possible nightmares as a result of reading the book:
There were several occasions where I had to stop and allow the chills to pass, but I still had to read with all the lights on.
This book will scare you out of your wits!
There are terrifying tales of ghosts and mysterious beings that will unnerve you.
Brad Steiger s gripping narrative style takes readers inside the haunts and explores the ghostly activity from the perspective of the witnesses.
A Steiger classic that will send innumerable chills and shivers up and down the reader s spine.
Real Monsters, Gruesome Creatures, and Beasts from the Darkside brought similar forewarnings from reviewers that readers may suffer resultant nightmares from reading the book:
Filled with gripping, nail-biting monster stories, be prepared to give up sleeping until you are completely finished with this book.
This book earns a prominent place in my personal library because of its scare factor.
I ve been interested in the paranormal all of my life, and I have never been afraid of monsters until I read this book.
You will have to leave the lights on to get even half-way through this book.
And now, in an exciting new and unique series entitled Real Nightmares , my publisher Visible Ink and I are offering you some fan favorites from those books that readers have declared the most frightening, scary, and awesome-the ones that they had to leave the lights on to finish reading.
The Great Shaver Mystery and Its Warning to Future Man
Life magazine (May 21, 1951) carried a story on the Shaver Mystery, and a controversy that boiled into what they hailed as the most celebrated rumpus that racked the science-fiction world.
According to Life: The Shaver Mystery concerned a race of malformed subhuman creatures called deros (from detrimental robots) who inhabited a vast system of underground cities all over the world, The original name of their habitat was Lemuria [well known in esoterica as a lost continent ], and they had once been slaves of a Lemurian master race. But the [Lords of Lemuria] had long since disappeared from the earth, leaving the ignorant and malicious deros in control of its great cities and wonderful machines. Since then the deros occupied themselves mainly in persecuting the human race who lived on the crust of the earth above them. The deros were responsible for much of the evil in the world from shipwrecks to sprained ankles. They often appeared on the surface of the earth and were sufficiently human in appearance to pass unnoticed in a crowd they performed most of their harassments by telepathy, rays and other remote-control devices from their subterranean homes.
F rom February 1938 to September 1949, Ray Palmer was editor of the Ziff-Davis fiction magazines. In September of 1944, a letter from a Richard S. Shaver came to his attention. The enigmatic letter-branded sheer crackpotism by Palmer s managing editor-presented details of an ancient language that should not be lost to the world. Intrigued by the results of some office experiment with the alphabet, Palmer decided to print the letter in the next issue of Amazing Stories .
The publication of Shaver s letter brought an avalanche of mail to Palmer s desk. All the letter writers wanted to know where Shaver had acquired his alphabet. Smelling a good story in the making, Palmer contacted Shaver and received a 10,000-word manuscript in reply.
Palmer was impressed by the sincerity of the crude manuscript, which Shaver had entitled, A Warning to Future Man.
In Palmer s own account: I put a clean piece of paper into my typewriter, and using Mr. Shaver s strange lettermanuscript as a basis, I wrote a 31,000-word story which I entitled, I Remember Lemuria!
When I spoke with Ray Palmer in his